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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the beginning of Chapter 6, Lame Deer mentions a pot with plenty of what inside?
(a) Potatoes.
(b) Dog meat.
(c) Water.
(d) Herbs.

2. What did the Indians name "holy dog"?
(a) The horse.
(b) The bull.
(c) The wolf.
(d) The buffalo.

3. In Chapter 8, Lame Deer talks about a young Navajo boy and girl in their apartment in their city. What color of blanket did he put over this young couple?
(a) Blue.
(b) White.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Red.

4. What does the steam represent that is coming out of the pot mentioned in the beginning of Chapter 6?
(a) Darkness.
(b) New life.
(c) Mystery.
(d) Living breath.

5. What was the word that the Sioux tribe used for the stone god?
(a) Mosaken.
(b) Wagmuha.
(c) Tunkan.
(d) Cheyne.

6. What state did the Sioux church members have to get their peyote from?
(a) Arizona.
(b) California.
(c) Texas.
(d) Nevada.

7. What was the name of Lame Deer's (the great-grandfather) second chief that was shot by soldiers?
(a) Screaming Eagle.
(b) Morning Sun.
(c) Iron Star.
(d) Rod Iron.

8. As a start to a yuwipi meeting what needed to be done with all the windows and doors?
(a) They needed to be covered with blankets.
(b) They needed to be purified.
(c) They needed to be painted.
(d) The needed to be opened.

9. What animal does Lame Deer mention in Chapter 7 that is much like an Indian because it's unchangeable?
(a) A wolf.
(b) A cat.
(c) A bear.
(d) A buffalo.

10. Lame Deer states that many white men think that the sun dance is an initiation of what?
(a) Of a old medicine man passing on his power to a younger medicine man.
(b) Of a warrior ready to kill for the first time.
(c) Of a man and a woman growing together in love.
(d) Of a young man growing into manhood.

11. In the tale of the Stone Boy, when Stone Boy goes out to find his uncles he starts out in the morning and in the evening he smells what?
(a) Smoke.
(b) Buffalo breath.
(c) Crisp running water.
(d) Sweet rose petals.

12. Which tribe did the ghost dance start in?
(a) Blackfoot.
(b) Sioux.
(c) Cherokee.
(d) Ute.

13. How much did the Indian who had lost a leg in an industrial accident receive in insurance money?
(a) Fifteen thousand dollars.
(b) Ten thousand dollars.
(c) Twelve thousand dollars.
(d) Five thousand dollars.

14. To get ready for a yuwipi meeting, what did the floor need to be covered with?
(a) Feathers.
(b) Buffalo hides.
(c) Sagebrush.
(d) Dung.

15. In the process of building a sweat house, how many white willow trees needed to be cut?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Five.
(c) Sixteen.
(d) Nineteen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lame Deer stated that the only place his tribe could hold their sun dance was where?

2. How old was Lame Deer when his mother died?

3. What Sioux word means to bind or tie up?

4. Richard Erdoes tells Lame Deer that good art cannot be made with what?

5. In the tale about the Stone Boy, what does the young girl swallow?

(see the answer keys)

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